“The East Timor Model Offers a Way out for Western Sahara and Morocco” – Foreign Policy (09th December 2020)

Article by Stephen Zunes in Foreign Policy on how the Western Sahara conflict could be resolved
“The East Timor Model offers a Way out for Western Sahara and Morocco” – 09.12.2020

Link to the article : https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/09/east-timor-western-sahara-morocco/

The fate of Western Sahara lies between the hands of the U.N. Security Council

“It’s not often that Western Sahara makes international headlines, but in mid-November it did: Nov. 14 marked the tragic—if unsurprising—breakup of a tenuous, 29-year cease-fire in Western Sahara between the occupying Moroccan government and pro-independence fighters. The outbreak of violence is concerning not only because it flew in the face of nearly three decades of relative stasis, but also because Western governments’ reflexive response to the resurgent conflict may be to upend—and thereby hamper and delegitimize for perpetuity—more than 75 years of established international legal principles. It is imperative that the global community realize that, in both Western Sahara and Morocco, the path forward lies in adhering to international law, not overriding it.”

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